On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:38 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
In addition, maybe some advice/tips to minimise the risk of performing a large update. I'm thinking of things like performing updates in a screen session when remotely updating over an ssh login in case the ssh connection gets lost mid-update. Also, I tend to perform updates in smaller chunks like:
manually install new kernel packages yum update yum* rpm* yum update open* yum update gnome* kde* xorg* etc
If you're worried in big updates about a session dropping out, use screen. The smaller updates are _fine_ but screen is probably easier.
Plus any other advice relevant to the update procedure - how many times did people ask the difference between 'yum upgrade' and 'yum update', and which they should use :)
There is no difference, whatsoever, anymore. Ignore it.
-sv